1 Kings 22:18
And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon the priests and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait rex ad Doëg : Convertere tu, et irrue in sacerdotes. Conversusque Doëg Idumæus, irruit in sacerdotes, et trucidavit in die illa octoginta quinque viros vestitos ephod lineo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ Δωήκ Ἐπιστρέφου σὺ καὶ ἀπάντα εἰς τοὺς ἱερεῖς· καὶ ἐπεστράφη Δωὴκ ὁ Σύρος καὶ ἐθανάτωσεν τοὺς ἱερεῖς Κυρίου ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, τριακοσίους καὶ πέντε ἄνδρας, πάντας αἴροντας ἐφούδ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ לדויג סֹ֣ב אַתָּ֔ה וּפְגַ֖ע בַּכֹּהֲנִ֑ים וַיִּסֹּ֞ב דויג הָאֲדֹמִ֗י וַיִּפְגַּע הוּא֙ בַּכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וַיָּ֣מֶת בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא שְׁמֹנִ֤ים וַחֲמִשָּׁה֙ אִ֔ישׁ נֹשֵׂ֖א אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד
Haydock's commentary
Five. Josephus read "385." Septuagint, "305."
Ephod. They all appeared in this dress, as they were priests. (Calmet)
It was different from the sacred ephod. (Abulensis)
Thus the posterity of Heli was almost entirely cut off, as God had threatened, chap. ii. (Du Hamel; Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.), Persecution in Egypt
The other heresies also, when the very Truth has refuted them on the clearest evidence, are wont to be silent, being simply confounded by their conviction. But this modern and accursed heresy, when it is overthrown by argument, when it is cast down and covered with shame by the very Truth, forthwith endeavours to coerce by violence and stripes and imprisonment those whom it has been unable to persuade by argument, thereby acknowledging itself to be anything rather than godly. For it is the part of true godliness not to compel, but to persuade, as I said before. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius on the Best Method of Translating
9. I refer to these passages, not to convict the evangelists of falsification, a charge worthy only of impious men like Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian, but to bring home to my critics their own want of knowledge, and to gain from them such consideration that they may concede to me in the case of a simple letter what, whether they like it or not, they will have to concede to the Apostles in the Holy Scriptures. Mark, the disciple of Peter, begins his gospel thus: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as it is written in the prophet Isaiah: Behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” This quotation is made up from two prophets, Malachi that is to say and Isaiah. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
8. I say nothing of her journey through Cœle-Syria and Phœnicia (for it is not my purpose to give you a complete itinerary of her wanderings); I shall only name such places as are mentioned in the sacred books. After leaving the Roman colony of Berytus and the ancient city of Zidon she entered Elijah’s town on the shore at Zarephath and therein adored her Lord and Saviour. Next passing over the sands of Tyre on which Paul had once knelt she came to Acco or, as it is now called, Ptolemais, rode over the plains of Megiddo which had once witnessed the slaying of Josiah, and entered the land of the Philistines. Here she could not fail to admire the ruins of Dor, once a most powerful city; and Strato’s Tower, which though at one time insignificant was rebuilt by Herod king of Judæa and named Cæsarea in honour of Cæsar Augustus. …